The Resident Evil 2 remake has people flipping out at E3 this year, with everything from the new gore effects to the way they are planning on blending old and new to give vets and newcomers alike a solid, exciting experience. Some were a bit uneasy with the idea of adding too much new stuff, but after the announcement trailer and some gameplay, those fears have largely been put to rest. One change that has pretty much everyone stoked concerns the difficulty; chiefly, the implementation of the adaptive difficulty first debuted in Resident Evil 4. As reported by VG24/7, there won't be specific, set difficulty options like in the original, instead the adaptive difficulty will take care of it, just like it has in every RE since 4.
Producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi delved into the subject a little more, saying, "In terms of the standard difficulty, it does adjust based on player performance. I'd like to believe that you were doing really well and so the difficulty ramped up even more. But we have it tuned so that no matter how well you're doing, there's always going to be that sense of dread and tension there. Also, we are definitely implementing things that assist the player if they choose to utilize that stuff such as auto game. If a player thinks, 'Hey, I'd rather have an easier time going through this,' we will have those sorts of options as well."
Resident Evil 2 will be out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on January 25, 2019.
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